On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:35:37PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote:
> Carel:
>
> OK! I ran ls -l... with these results:
>
> mail 0 date drafts
> 0 inbox
> 840 sentmail
> 1613 trash
>
> I looked in the trash directory and there was nothing there.
>
> But this looks like it is giving me what is in /home/userme, not what is in
> /var/mail/userme
I've to guess here, cause I can't see the real output, nor the exact
command you gave, but it looks like you just listed ~userme/Mail. I
guess some more, you're doing your mail on a windows machine and have
a hard time copying output from the linux box into the email:) I sure
hope you've two machines running and don't need to reboot while doing
email just to run some checks.
So let's make the checks simpler and less output copious:)
1) On the linux box login as userme.
2) To check if it's a normal mailbox or a directory or whatever, use:
$ file /var/mail/userme
On my machine this looks like:
$ file /var/mail/userme
/var/mail/carel: ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines
so it's in standard mbox format. If it were in maildir format, it
would have been a directory and the output would likely look like:
$ file /var/mail/userme
/var/mail/carel: setgid directory
3) To see whether new mail arives, use:
$ du /var/mail/userme
$ echo just testing | mail -s test userme
$ du /var/mail/userme
On my machine this looks like:
$ du /var/mail/carel
132 /var/mail/carel
$ echo just testing | mail -s test carel
$ du /var/mail/carel
136 /var/mail/carel
4) To look at the mail itself we need to know the format of the mail spool.
in case it's in mbox format (see test 2), use:
$ tail /var/mail/userme
on my machie this looks like:
$ tail /var/mail/cf
id 17wiLZ-0000yt-00
for <cf@animus.felnet>; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:11:21 +0200
To: cf@animus.felnet
Subject: test
Message-Id: <E17wiLZ-0000yt-00@animus.felnet>
From: Carel Fellinger <cf@mail.felnet>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:11:21 +0200
just testing
If the above 4 steps yield similar results, then exim is definitely
working as it should, and you can move on to fixing your email client
setup.
--
groetjes, carel